What's up with all those spam bots?

[justspare]

I've seen many posts made on bitcoin discussion that is completely not understandable and meaningless. The accounts made seem to have randomly generated characters.

Something has to be done.

"Report to moderator" -> spam -> done. Most of them are removed within the minute the post is created.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1278196.0

Yes but... The bot acts faster than we do. It would be much more convenient if we just had some sort of sign up restriction.

They are appearing every minute.

[shorena]

I've seen many posts made on bitcoin discussion that is completely not understandable and meaningless. The accounts made seem to have randomly generated characters.

Something has to be done.

"Report to moderator" -> spam -> done. Most of them are removed within the minute the post is created.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1278196.0

Yes but... The bot acts faster than we do. It would be much more convenient if we just had some sort of sign up restriction.

They are appearing every minute.

Well the bot gets to "decide" when to act, all we can do is react. Sign up restrictions that are not also restricting legit new users are hard to come up with. If you have an idea, let us know.


PS: Props to the admin/global mod(?) that merged the topics.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Somewhere there is a man in his underwear, sitting at a computer.  Likely he has hairy arms and his computer screen hasn't been wiped in years, and he's probably smoked something recently that didn't come in a pack of 20.  Pupils very dilated.  And all this man can think of doing is to create one account after another here at bitcointalk and to string words and pseudo-words into short combinations that reflect his burgeoning insanity. 

That guy is not me, by the way.  Just saying.

[okae]

I've seen many posts made on bitcoin discussion that is completely not understandable and meaningless. The accounts made seem to have randomly generated characters.

Something has to be done.

"Report to moderator" -> spam -> done. Most of them are removed within the minute the post is created.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1278196.0

Exactly this; Just let Moderators do his job and if everybody wants to have this forum clean, just need to be fair enough while you post and use the "Report to moderator" button when you see all those spam bots, contribute and help yourself...

[Decoded]

Someone has a really big agenda against Theymos. Just ignore them, the accounts get nuked. Hope Theymos finds a fix though, they're pissing me off